Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-30
NEBRASKA.

The Nebraska City Press will issue q boom
edition la a few weeks.
Tracklaying has begun on the Missouri
Pacific extension to Nebraska City.
Tickets for the Edwin Booth engagement
ment at Omaha will be sold at auction.
The martial spirit has broken out in Ne
braska City, and a military company is likely
TO result.
Mrs. Frank .acek, wife OF a Butler county
IA, mer, suicided by hanging, last week. No
cause assigned.
An anti-town cow league has been formed
at Nebraska City to impound all COWS run
ming at large.
The police auty critics at Hastings made 407
arrests during March-one-half OF them for
drunkenness. The fines aggregated 1899.
Tn manly art Is highly esteemed in Creigh-
ton. a local thug bias been caned and ban
quoted for pounding two citizens. His name
is Cheney.
For the year ending with March 4G7 ar.
rests were made at Hastings, one-half being
for Drunkenness. The fine. collected amount
ed TO 81 800.
Bert Bemis, son OF George w. Bemis Of SUI
ton, died Saturday o: internal injuries received
while loading a car with hay. He was four
teen years Of aye.
B~ohauon, one Of the horse thieves who es.
capped the bullets of the vigiiants in Sherman
county last week, has been arrested and jailed
In Valentine.
The scholars OF the institute for the blind
~ NnbraGla (Ity ur4t y4y,Qriun "A pnnSirat and
literary entertainment to be given next FL.
day, Arbor day.
Some Fremont sports visited Scribner last
week and challenged the town to a foot race.
The iDnoccnts were taken In aud the FREE
monters carried away $500.
Madison has just completed q large new
school house, fitted the grounds up in attract
i've shape and still has a balance Of $725. 80 on
hand in the school treasury.
The state fish commissioners have decided
to procure %, 700 eggs OF perch from the
hatcheries at Bay City, Mich, to batch and
plant in the waters OF the state.
Little Mary Starner, of Glencoe, aged three
years, fell into a tub containing boi ing water
one day last week and was so badly scalded
that she died within u few hours.
The gamblers of Fremont have been notified
that their presence will no longer be toler-
ated in that city, aud that unless they depart
they win be arrested for vagrancy.
While "A fight was in progress in front Of a
Chinese laundry at Omaha Oh Sunday morn
ing, some thief entered the back door Of the
place and stole over 500 worth Of linen.
The odd Fellows Of Nebraska City have
purchased the lot on the corner Of Sixth and
main streets for s., 200, on which they propose
to erect one Of the finest building in the
city.
1t Is said that a servant girl in Omaha has
fallec heir 10 $3.50, 600, and the family where
she has been employed has invited Ler to &C.
cupy the spare loom and help receive com
pauy.
The noted Capital hotel, Of Lincoln, has
been sold to william Henry Stout for $l20,
0 0. 1t is reported that Hon. f. p. Roggan
late secretary Of state, will take charge OF the
house.
Hon. w. A. Paxton, Of Omaha, has been
awarded the government contract Of supply
ing the Pine Ridge Indians with 400, UG
pounds of beef on the boof at $2 % per hun
bred, or a total Of sl3t, $50.
f.. s. Harkroder, late Of the Clay County
Democrat, has disappeared from Sutton, and
his whereabouts is a mystery to several
friends who linger under the memory OF q
cash balance to their credit.
Spencer Doty, aged fifteen years, living near
Hastings, shot himself Monday afternoon and
was instantly killed. He was loading a shot
gun which was Accidentally discharged. The
side of his head was blown of.
In a carlord Of hogs brought into Pierce the
other day there was discovered a tramp lying
down on the floor Of the car entirely sur.
rounded by the other hogs. When he found
out that the car was To be side-traeked and
would not 90 further be crawled out AID
sought other quarters.
Miller, Mcdonald & Co., the contractors on
the Seward extension Of the Elkhorn Valley
road, are pushing the work with great energy.
There are about 700 teams at work and sixty
miles are opened up southeast Of Fremont.
Forty miles of the Hastings Branch are being
graded.
The boarders Of the Cottage hotel In Platts-
mouth were doped with poison In garden
truck, Monday, and the house transformed
| into q hospital a few hours after. The eye
balls Of twenty victims rolled and their
stomachs heayed In wild agony, but a corps
of handy doctors eased them with emet.cs.
The Plattsm0uth Journal has assurance
the building Of a railroad and wagon bridge
over the Platte at Oreapolis would give the
city connection with the Missouri Pacific.
The Journal urges the commissioners Of Cass
and Sarpy counties and business men 10 come
together and push the project. 1t means
much good for both counties.
The state auditor has for several days past
refused 20 draw warrants upon the saline
fund. Two years ago the legislature author
lied the board Of public lands and buildings
To dispose OF 5000 worth Of saline lands,
which sh0ult constitute a fund for the de-
velopment Of the saline interests Of the state
for the next two years. Twenty thousand
dollars worth OF this land was disposed Of
and $4,000 used in experiments, leaving in
uDsold lands and uncxpeaded balance S3T, 900.
The state auditor claims that the purposes
for which this appropriation WAS made ex-
PRED on the 1st Of March. An appeal was